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Feb 23, 2008 - 7:00 PM
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The impetus for this essay was a book that a reader asked us to check out, titled Christ Esteem by Don Matzat. The book is out of print, and so not reviewable here, but as I read it (and to answer the reader's question, as a whole, I find it quite useful) I find something surprising. Matzat takes us on a Biblical journey in which he refutes the modern desire for "self-esteem" and replaces it with "Christ esteem." What is surprising is how much of what Matzat recommends, corresponds to essentially this advice: Become less like a modern Westerner, and more like an ancient person of the sort that lived in Bible times.
The irony of course is that Matzat, for all his erudition, likely is unaware of the work of the Context Group or other contextual scholars who highlight the vast differences between ancient and modern personality. Not that this is to his discredit, especially since he wrote some years ago (1990) when little of this information was readily available. But we would like to note some of his comments, and in turn indicate how these correspond with the markers of ancient personality, courtesy of Malina and Neyrey's Portraits of Paul. What we will find is that our modern "problems" lie much in our personal psychology (as we noted as well where discipling was concerned).
Matzat observes that as little as 40 years ago, one never heard the self-identity question so common today: "Who am I?" "How can I develop a positive self-identity?" Matzat replies [28]:
The personal identity of the apostle Paul was completely immersed in the person of Jesus Christ...Should not such glorious identity and victorious life meet the needs of this generation?
Compare Matzat's determination of Paul -- correct in essence, if written in modern terms -- to what is offered by Malina and Neyrey about the concept of "embeddedness" [158]:
...[A]ncient Mediterranean people identified and defined themselves as situated and embedded in various other persons with whom they formed a unity of sorts...the individual person... [Read More]
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May 25, 2008 - 11:11 AM
Editorial Dept. Article
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by Trout
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1 Corth 14:29-36, a closer look.
What is the view of women in the Bible? This seems to be a question that people throughout history and in our modern time want to answer. Was Jesus and Paul really anti women or is there more to it than the ‘plain reading’ of the text? There has been a movement in the past few years to answer these questions; such popular works like Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code try to answer these questions. One example of this is can be found here:
“The Priory believes that Constantine and his male successors successfully converted the world from matriarchal paganism to patriarchal Christianity by waging a campaign of propaganda that demonized the sacred feminine, obliterating the goddess from modern religion forever.” (1)
Of course, there were a few religions that did have female dieties (such as the Isis cult), but is there really any evidence that there was full blow 'matriarchal paganism'? No, because after all... groups such as the Mirthia cult were far from 'matriarchal' as well as most of the religions o f that time. So did Christianity really erase these beliefs? No ; however; some of these questions are not answered as easy this, so what I’d like to do is go into one common verse to discover, is Christianity really anti-women or are we just not getting the message that it is telling us? I’m going to go into just one common verse from Paul that is commonly used just to show that Paul (often cited as being the worst of them all) is about as women hating as sugar is sour:
“As in all the congregations of the saints, women should remain silent in the churches. They are not allowed to speak, but must be in submission, as the Law says. If they want to inquire about something, they should ask their own husbands at home; for it is disgraceful for a woman to speak in the church.” (2)
What I like to look at first is the various views on this verse and tries to develop which one these views would accurately reflect what Paul was teaching really teaching. One commentary {Matthew Henry’s} even goes as far as to say: “Enjoins silence on their women in public assemblies, and to such a degree that they must not ask questions for their own information in the church, but ask their husbands at home.”(3) This does seem to support the idea that Paul was indeed telling women to sit down, shut up, and be obedient, but the question is, is this right way to view... [Read More]
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Curtmudgeon was able to more get to the heart of what I was looking for in this thread so I thought I'd follow his advice:
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This review will be posted on Tekton in the next few days.
"The Shack" was recommended by one of the fluffies who stopped by here to whine about how I ripped Viola's "Pagan Christianity" and since it was selling well I decided to check it out. It looked like ghastly emergent fiction, and that is what it was, though not as bad as it could have been.
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Oprah-fiction for the emergent Christian which offers the ultimate "God is my buddy" head...
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This thread is all about the new book on the Christ myth that Tekton will be publishing in May/June as part of the new Building Blocks teaching series. I'm working on the final editing now and plan to submit the mss. to Xulon for a self-pub job no later than May 15.
This project will be a bit unusual in that I have a team of contributors adding in their own chapters. A couple of them are right here on TWeb! :thumb:
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The USA government may call it desertion, but I’d call it following Jesus Christ. http://www.lewrockwell.com/grigg/grigg-w41.html
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This thread is belated. There are no bonus points. Spam away!
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"Nowadays, as is evident, there is a great diversity between the various manuscripts, either through the negligence of certain copyists, or the perverse audacity shown by some in correcting the text, or through the fault of those who, playing the part of correctors, lengthen or shorten it as they please." (Origen, Commentary on Matthew, 15:14)
I have already shown 3 doctrinally significant textual corruptions from Mark 16 alone.
I choose Luke 3:22 as my 4th, what the voice from heaven said...
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I didn't want to derail any of the other threads, so am going to ask this here.
I have seen many people say that they were not going to vote in the upcoming US election until this or that happened because neither of the candidates suited them.
My question is, is it not better to vote for whomever you think is the lesser of 2 evils than not to vote at all?
Perhaps this comes from living in a country where we don't vote for the actual leader but for whomever happens to be running in our riding...
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Starting it now just in case I won't be on here again before Monday.
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Just hints for where you can start looking. :whistle:
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This ought to get them going; I'm living 'dangerously' in here among any legalists, in posting this, haha!
Well, it's says that this forum is "Theology 201," so let's see if it really is, LOL!
The Bible reveals in the following verses that the saved "no longer commit sin," that the saved are no longer sinners. This truth is very difficult for the natural-minded man to understand and/or believe, including many babes in Christ, apparently:
"God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin,...
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It's the tail end of the five-day forecast, so I'm figuring it'll do some moving, but right now it looks pretty bad for the Strawberry Manse. The discussion centers around where it makes its turn. If it turns in the Bahamas, it'll pass north of me. If it turns over Cuba, it'll pass south.
Okay, this time I'm a bit more worried. There's no good evacuation route, so I'm going to scope out some shelters this weekend.
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